Compare the strength, the price per thousand and the delivery before you pay. A free request for bricks in Northern Cape goes to a supplier serving towns and cities across Northern Cape, and you see the offers side by side.
Bricks in Northern Cape
Bricks in Northern Cape: say the brick type (cement, clay stock or face), the number or the wall size, and the delivery address. Brickyards serving Northern Cape, Northern Cape can quote per 1,000 delivered and say how soon a truck can come and whether it can offload with a crane.
New to this? Read the bricks guide for the choices and the points worth checking before you pay.
Northern Cape notes on bricks & blocks
Newer houses in Kimberley's Royldene and Hadison Park mix face brick with plaster, while Galeshewe and Roodepan build mostly in cement maxi bricks. In Kathu and Postmasburg, mine housing and rentals take large orders of blocks. Farms near Prieska and Williston build sheds and staff houses in hollow blocks, and Kimberley's old Belgravia houses need red face brick matched carefully for repairs and extensions.
Bricks, blocks and brick making in Northern Cape
Distance is part of the price of every brick in the Northern Cape. Kimberley and Upington have the bigger yards, but a farmhouse near Carnarvon or a school extension in Pofadder may be hundreds of kilometres from the nearest pallet, so many towns make their own cement bricks locally with a small machine and Orange River or pit sand. Mining towns such as Kathu, Postmasburg and Kuruman add rented housing and new extensions, and the Karoo towns of De Aar and Colesberg build farm sheds, dams and kraals. Kimberley's older suburbs still have red face brick to match. Fierce sun and dry wind crack fresh bricks, and the Karoo gets hard winter frost.
The requests we see from Northern Cape usually come from:
- Farms and smallholdings: bricks for staff houses, stores, kraals and walls around the farm buildings
- Homeowners: bricks for an extra room, a garage or a boundary wall round the house
- New brick-making businesses: a small yard making cement stock bricks to sell to builders in the area
Local tips for Northern Cape
Yards and suppliers serving Northern Cape mostly work from here: yards in Kimberley, Upington and Kathu; small local yards in most towns. The requests that come up most: locally made cement bricks, farm shed blocks, housing in the mining towns. When you ask for quotes, ask for a full load price delivered to the farm, not a per pallet price at the yard.
Around Northern Cape the largest group asking is farms and smallholdings, which usually means bricks for staff houses, stores, kraals and walls around the farm buildings. Before you agree to anything: sANS 1215 for cement, SANS 227 for clay. Getting stock here: long hauls on the N8, N10 and N14; many towns make bricks with local sand.
Service area: Northern Cape and surrounds
We pass Northern Cape requests to suppliers based in or regularly delivering to Kimberley, Upington, Kathu, Kuruman, Springbok, De Aar, Postmasburg. Farm and rural requests should give the nearest town and the farm name, so delivery is quoted honestly.